Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Melon is known to exist. Paul Mellon, mentally active son of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, stroked the Clare College second boat in successful competition with other Cambridge College boats in an annual event which may properly be described as a regatta but which Cantabs delight to call The Lents...
...president of the reorganized Gold Star Mothers of America Mrs. Burling had rivals. The American War Mothers Association of which Mrs. Virgil McClure is president, criticized her tactics. Petty politics bred bad feeling. But last week it was Mrs. Burling, beaming with delight, who led the Gold Star trippers to New York's City Hall, received there for them the greetings of municipal officers, admirals, generals, Congressmen, officially responded to the welcome...
...fidgeted, pranced and pleaded with tantalizing Miss Alden. He drove his spear into the ground, he waved his arms, he bellowed. But until peace was made, the women were adamant. Followed a jubilee, with dancers, music, lights and shouting united in a single impulse calculated by Author Aristophanes to delight oldtime Athens, and by his modern producers to amaze contemporary propagandists for Peace or Preparedness...
...Ochs ideals, prowess, personality. To Mr. Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying and motivating facts-the news angle becomes apparent his touch. ... His greatest delight is to find an insignificant paragraph which under his prodding develops into a first-page story the following...
Democratic delight at having put Claudius Hart Huston. Chairman of the Republican National Committee and President Hoover's friend, into a bad hole by exposing his stock trading on lobby funds, began to diminish last week (TIME. March 31). The reason: Republicans were actively on the move to put John Jacob Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in almost the same hole. If both party leaders were thus beclouded, the political score would be evened...